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New comment by bopjesvla in "Seven countries now generate nearly all their electricity from renewables (2024)"

bopjesvla — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 18:53:57 +0000

> The Netherlands: 86%, dominated by solar & wind

The Netherlands: 50%, of which one third is biomass.

As someone living in the Netherlands, I would love to live in energy utopia, but stats reported by people who can’t read Dutch government reports are usually wrong.

New comment by bopjesvla in "Seven countries now generate 100% of their electricity from renewable energy"

bopjesvla — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 18:42:08 +0000

That’s just a random website. Dutch bureau of statistics:

https://www.cbs.nl/nl-nl/longread/rapportages/2025/hernieuwb...

New comment by bopjesvla in "Seven countries now generate 100% of their electricity from renewable energy"

bopjesvla — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 17:16:06 +0000

> The Netherlands: 86%, dominated by solar & wind

The Dutch bureau of statistics reports 50%, of which a plurality (one third) is biomass. The Netherlands is also famously gas-dependent. Natural gas isn’t converted to electricity for heating and many industrial applications. Can’t quickly find stats on production here, but renewables are only 17% of total energy usage. Renewables without biomass are ~12% of total energy usage.

New comment by bopjesvla in "The wall confronting large language models"

bopjesvla — Thu, 04 Sep 2025 11:26:27 +0000

The Chinese Room experiment has always been a hack thought experiment that was discussed in other forms before it was posited by Searle, most famously in Turing's "Can machines think?". Searle only superficially engaged with existing literature in the original Chinese Room paper. When he was forced to do so later on, Searle claimed that if you'd precisely simulate a Chinese human brain in a human-like robot, that brain still wouldn't be able to think or understand Chinese. Not a useful definition of thinking if you ask me.

From Wikipedia:

Suppose that the program simulated in fine detail the action of every neuron in the brain of a Chinese speaker.[83][w] This strengthens the intuition that there would be no significant difference between the operation of the program and the operation of a live human brain. Not a useful definition of thinking if you ask me.

Searle replies that such a simulation does not reproduce the important features of the brain—its causal and intentional states. He is adamant that "human mental phenomena [are] dependent on actual physical–chemical properties of actual human brains."[26]

New comment by bopjesvla in "Emergent Misalignment: Narrow finetuning can produce broadly misaligned LLMs"

bopjesvla — Mon, 14 Jul 2025 10:22:55 +0000

Seconding this, also, how much increase in the probability is considered self-reinforcement? Small changes could be attributed to random variation. Interesting if true though

Cheap context-aware translations of reviews, comments and everything else

bopjesvla — Sun, 18 May 2025 10:10:29 +0000

Article URL: https://batchtranslation.com/cheap-context-aware-translations-of-reviews-comments-and-everything-else

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44020268

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

A smart contract anyone can drain once people stop sending it money

bopjesvla — Sun, 23 Jun 2024 13:52:37 +0000

Article URL: https://drain.abcd.party

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40767478

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

Werewolf Coin, an Ethereum token that can only be spent during the full moon

bopjesvla — Fri, 21 Jun 2024 10:51:27 +0000

Article URL: https://werewolfco.in

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40748175

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

Werewolf Coin, an Ethereum token that can only be spent during the full moon

bopjesvla — Thu, 20 Jun 2024 12:12:49 +0000

Article URL: https://werewolfco.in/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40737787

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

Werewolf Coin, an Ethereum token that can only be spent during the full moon

bopjesvla — Wed, 19 Jun 2024 12:00:53 +0000

Article URL: https://werewolfco.in

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40727428

Points: 3

# Comments: 2

Tiny World Map 3

bopjesvla — Sun, 05 May 2024 17:59:14 +0000

Article URL: https://tinyworldmap.com/3.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40266799

Points: 22

# Comments: 0

Tiny World Map 3

bopjesvla — Sun, 05 May 2024 11:32:32 +0000

Article URL: https://tinyworldmap.com/3

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40264047

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by bopjesvla in "Tiny World Map"

bopjesvla — Mon, 22 Apr 2024 19:43:59 +0000

This has been improved in v2.

New comment by bopjesvla in "Tiny World Map"

bopjesvla — Mon, 22 Apr 2024 08:11:28 +0000

Thanks for the feedback, everyone. To give some context for our choices: until recently, country shapes were not the main focus of this project. For a long time, the version in the README without country borders was the only version, because we didn't think adding the entire world was feasible. Turns out, it was.

I've published a nightly version [1] that removes fjords and adds more detail elsewhere, including the much-requested islands. It also generally has a higher resolution. The reason we originally didn't do the latter is because old phones, especially those running Firefox for Android, can crash while drawing large amounts of polygons. I have since optimized the drawing procedure, but beware!

[1] https://tinyworldmap.com/beta.html

New comment by bopjesvla in "Tiny World Map"

bopjesvla — Mon, 22 Apr 2024 07:59:03 +0000

I've published a nightly version [1] that removes fjords and adds more detail elsewhere. It also generally has a higher resolution. The reason I originally didn't do the latter is because old phones, especially those running Firefox for Android, can crash while drawing large amounts of polygons. I have since optimized the drawing procedure, but beware!

[1] https://tinyworldmap.com/beta.html